leadership coaching
for executives & teams

Leadership challenges rarely live in just one place

What shows up as burnout, misalignment, communication breakdown, culture drift, or founder isolation is often connected to something deeper.

A pattern. A nervous system state. A way of relating to pressure, power, responsibility, or change.

This is where insight becomes leadership.

  • For founders, executives, and senior leaders who are ready to lead with greater clarity, presence, and courage.

    Together we uncover the patterns shaping how you think, communicate, make decisions, and respond under pressure, so your leadership reflects who you actually are, not just what your role demands.

    This work often supports leaders who are navigating:

    • Executive presence and confidence
    • High stakes decisions
    • Difficult conversations and leadership communication
    • Burnout or overfunctioning
    • Isolation at the top
    • Leading through growth, change, or complexity

    Best next step: Let’s start with a chemistry call.

  • I work closely with founders and executives as a trusted thought partner when leadership decisions carry real weight.

    There is a lot to carry. The stakes are real. The path forward is not always obvious.

    Together, we create space to slow down, think clearly, and make decisions that align with both the business you are building and the leader you are becoming.

    This often supports leaders who are navigating:

    • Major leadership decisions
    • Founder isolation and decision fatigue
    • Team dynamics and difficult conversations
    • Growth, change, or organizational complexity
    • Hiring, transitions, or shifting responsibilities
    • Outgrowing the leadership patterns that once served you

    Best next step: Let’s explore what is on your mind.

  • Culture does not begin with values on a wall, a team offsite, or a new communication framework.

    It begins with the leader.

    How leaders handle pressure.
    How they communicate.
    What they tolerate.
    What they model when things get hard.

    I partner with founders, executives, and senior leaders who recognize that if they want to change the culture, they first need to look at how their own leadership is shaping it.

    For that reason, I often begin by coaching the leader first, helping them build the awareness, alignment, and leadership capacity needed before bringing this work to the leadership team or broader organization

    Together, we uncover the patterns influencing how people communicate, give feedback, navigate conflict, make decisions, and respond under pressure so the culture you are building reflects the values you say matter most.

    This often supports leaders who are navigating:

    • Leadership blind spots or recurring team dynamics
    • Communication breakdowns or trust gaps
    • Team burnout, disengagement, or overfunctioning
    • Difficulty giving direct feedback or having hard conversations
    • Scaling challenges that are impacting culture
    • A desire to build a culture that reflects how you actually want to lead

    Best next step: Let’s start with the leader at the center.

  • Leadership teams do not need another offsite filled with slide decks, surface level trust exercises, or the conversations that matter most but rarely happen.

    They need space to slow down, tell the truth, and have the conversations that rarely happen in the day to day.

    I design and facilitate immersive leadership experiences that help founders, executives, and leadership teams step out of the pace, pressure, and operational noise that comes with leading at a high level and reconnect to what matters most.

    Sometimes that means clarifying vision.
    Sometimes it means navigating tension.
    Sometimes it means rebuilding trust, alignment, and shared ownership before the next stage of growth.

    These experiences often support teams navigating:

    • Leadership misalignment
    • Trust gaps or communication breakdowns
    • Founder and leadership team tension
    • Scaling challenges and shifting roles
    • Burnout, overfunctioning, or team reactivity
    • Big decisions that require collective clarity

    Best next step: Start with a conversation. From there, we’ll create the right room for what needs to happen.

  • Not every leadership breakthrough happens in a coaching session or a boardroom.

    Some of the most important shifts happen when leaders step fully out of their day to day environment and into a space designed for truth, reflection, challenge, and transformation.

    I curate and co create signature experiences for founders, executives, and high performing leaders who are ready for something deeper than insight alone.

    These experiences may include:

    • Founder retreats and executive immersions
    • Women’s leadership retreats
    • Private intensives
    • Curated leadership experiences with trusted partners
    • Experiences that reconnect leaders to who they are and how they want to lead

    Best next step: Start with a conversation about the experience you want to create or join.

If you are a successful executive that recognizes the results you are seeing in your career and personal life don’t Fully align with what you most want and are ready to take the first step towards growth and freedom, I can help.

YOUR OPTIONS

coaching sessions

Coaching requires curiosity, commitment and an openness to change. We’ll focus on the context of your issues (how you are relating to them) versus the content (the details of the issue itself). To aid you on your path to self discovery we’ll also leverage the Enneagram. The Enneagram is a sense-making tool or a framework that enables the development of self-knowledge and meta-awareness. I offer a variety of flexible coaching options, whether you're interested in a one-time session or ongoing support for yourself or for your team.

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Enneagram Assessment

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1:1 Coaching

Group Coaching

 
 

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TUNE INTO YOUR STRENGTHS AND YOUR ABILITIES

 

 
 

“Nicole is a holistic coach who will guide you to listen to yourself. She is capable of gentle guidance or a strong push, depending on what you need. Her key strength is getting you to tune into your strengths and your abilities. While it is clear that she has a style and process for coaching, she also has instincts and a feel for what you need at the moment. I recommend Nicole to anyone seeking true internal confidence and resolve, and to anyone who needs to be reminded of their talents and abilities and how to align them with their heart and what matters most in their lives.”

TRAVIS HEAD

Chief Operating Officer at Yoga International

work with me

My work helps leaders align who they are with how they lead, so their impact feels as powerful as their ambition.

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meditation

an analogy for life

One of my favorite meditation teachers and authors, Joseph Goldstein, says “The ups and downs in the practice...that is all part of the unfolding path.”

A meditation practice is a great analogy for life. We sit with great intention and before we realize it our mind begins to wander, there is an itch behind our left knee, we are suddenly focused on our to-do list and have completely forgotten what we are doing there in the first place. We may or may not get frustrated. We choose to bring our attention back to the breath and begin again. Just as in life, through all the ups and downs in our practice we move forward.

By meditating regularly we “develop a mind that can hold all of that with greater ease.” We develop equanimity so that as leaders we can handle everything that comes our way without getting so thrown off when what happens in life is out of our control (spoiler alert: it usually is).

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Thank you for sharing your email address with me! Please be on the lookout for a confirmation email. Once you confirm you would like to receive emails from Lead with Bliss you will receive access to your free 5 minute meditation. I also recommend adding nicole@leadwithbliss.com to your email contacts list to ensure messages do not get placed in a spam folder. I look forward to keeping in touch with you!
 
 

FAQ

have questions?

  • I recommend we meet twice a month until you feel ready to proceed independently. I am also open to exploring other custom options that will best support your needs.

  • Please reach out to me to book a Chemistry Call so we can explore whether we are a good fit to work together. It may be helpful to ponder the question, “How will I have grown after our time together?” prior to our call. Should you decide to move forward, I’ll share some resources to help you better understand the conscious leadership coaching method I leverage as well as a link for an Enneagram test.

  • The Enneagram is a powerful, internationally recognised coaching tool encompassing nine diverse archetypes of leadership rather than a single style, or assumption, of what good leadership looks like. Each of the nine Enneagram Types represents a worldview and an archetypal way of thinking, feeling and acting in relation to the world, others and oneself. It is more than a profile of traits or behaviours, as it delves deeper into the motivations, defences and fears that lie in the often-unconscious area of our personality.

    Discovering your Enneagram Type will lead you to greater self-awareness. At this deeper level of self-discovery, you have the ability for unlocking change at the level of "why we do things" to enable behavioural change. This enables consciousness shifts. I’ll invite you to complete an Enneagram Test through Integrative Enneagram Solutions prior to our first session.

  • I can support you to explore a wide range of topics that arise in your role as a leader inside and outside the workplace. This can range from recycling work issues to frustration over lack of balance in your work and personal life. What will support you in creating lasting change is our focus on the context of your issues (how you are relating to them) vs. the content (the details of the issue itself).

  • Yes! I love working with teams. This may include team coaching, leadership circles, seminars, workshops and offsites. Please reach out to me to discuss what you are looking for and we can come up with a plan that is optimal for your team.